Tuesday, November 6, 2012

RV Factory Repair

We pulled our RV into the Phoenix factory at 6 AM. The problem was a leaking rubber seal on the side-out which contains our refrigerator and dinette.

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This is what the inside of our RV looked like at 6 AM.

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One hour later the dinette was removed.

Then they removed the refrigerator.

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The adhesive on the big rubber seal adhesive had failed and come loose from the rubber seal, not from the slide-out floor.

Here is the new seal.

They had to remove the slide-out to put the new seal in. Of course rather than just rely on the adhesive to hold they actually screwed down the new seal.

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In their spare time they put in a new emergency exit window since when we tried to demo it, the window seal did not comeback together properly. They didn’t  know why, so they just installed a new window.

They completed everything and had us back together by 11 AM, a 5 hour job. They sure know what they are doing. A local RV sales place near us told us it was a 40 hr. job.

Minutes later, we were on the road to Houston. We will go via South Bend, Indianapolis, West Memphis, AR, Texarkana, AR, Marshall and Livingston, TX.  We will stop overnight at a Wal-Mart when I get tired.

I got tired at 4:30 PM and we stopped overnight in Salem, IL, and had a KFC dinner and a early sleep.

 

2 comments:

  1. Smart move to have it repaired immediately. It could have been a bigger problem if you overlooked it. Nevertheless, glad you’re back on your trip after 5 hours of work, which I think was quite fast. Anyway, have a safe trip!

    >Kurt Bukowski

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  2. It’s amazing that, in just a small amount of time, they were able to do two jobs. They’re pretty good workers. Anyway, it’s good that you have a new emergency exit window because that is a very important part of an RV. Stay safe in all your trips!

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